Hublot - Chen Man new Ambassador
On 2015 June 5th, Hublot welcomed a new ambassador from the world of art, Chen Man, the international visual artist. In her unique female artist's perspective, she fuses fashion and art, creating a series of extraordinary visual art pieces.
As a world-renowned visual artist, Chen Man's unique style has won her many awards in the international arena. She has worked with various front-line media, home and abroad, for covers, capturing light and shadow with her fine, subtle and sensitive instinct, bestowing unprecedented charm and character to already well-known faces. She fuses Chinese traditional philosophical culture and modern fashion, two concepts that seems contradictory, thusly, becomes a unique explorer of Chinese modern visual art. Chen Man interprets Hublot's brand spirit of "be the first, unique and different" in the best possible way.
At the press conference, Chen Man shared her view of visual art as a female artist. Wearing the Big Bang Jeans Carat set with baguettes, Chen Man sat in front of the Chinese classic architecture. The commercial perfectly reflected the fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics.
The cooperation between Chen Man and Hublot goes way back. She has personal shot three brand ambassadors of Hublot: Bar Refaeli wearing her Big Bang Embroidery; Lapo Erkann and the Big Bang Unico Italian Independent watch, and Lang Lang, wearing his Big Bang Carbon Bezel Baguette watch.
Hermès - Arceau Cheval d’Orient
To give life to these equestrian scenes from a dream-like Orient, all the patience and meticulous care of an experienced lacquer specialist are devoted to taking up the challenge of miniaturisation. Inventiveness is also called upon, since French lacquer craftsmanship on a metal base, instead of the traditional wood or bamboo, requires a partial revisiting of the traditional techniques.
With a fine-tipped brush, the artisan applies the first layers of lacquer – pigments mixed with a copal-based varnish – while respecting three days’ drying time between each coat. Building the work in stages, the lacquer specialist repeats this alternating process of careful gestures for many weeks, adding up to 30 or so coats in order to achieve a deep black base.
Then, after outlining with a pencil the contours of the design on the lacquered dial, comes the preparation of the palette of colours, finely crushing and mixing the pigments to achieve the desired shades. The brush is deftly wielded to gradually bring the colours of the motif to life and reproduce the entire pattern. Ten days of drying are required before superimposing 20 layers of transparent lacquer, which also require lengthy drying. An ultimate polish then reveals the extreme finesse of a design imbued with the subtle depth and vivid colours that only lacquer can achieve.
Each of these dials is assembled in a 41mm white gold Arceau case, driven by the Manufacture Hermès automatic H1837 calibre. The watches are fitted with a matt black alligator strap, equipped with a pin buckle in 750 white gold. They come in an limited numbered edition of 24 pieces.